Lovell v. St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAR FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF TIIE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. This case was commenced by a bill in chancery filed by the appellants, Lovell and wife, citizens of Tennessee, against the St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company and the St. Louis Life Insurance Company, for relief in relation to a certain policy of insurance issued by the former company through an agent at Nashville, Tennessee, to Lovell on his own life for the sum of $5,000, for the…
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APPEAR FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF TIIE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. This case was commenced by a bill in chancery filed by the appellants, Lovell and wife, citizens of Tennessee, against the St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company and the St. Louis Life Insurance Company, for relief in relation to a certain policy of insurance issued by the former company through an agent at Nashville, Tennessee, to Lovell on his own life for the sum of $5,000, for the benefit of his wife, and to be paid to her on his death. The policy was dated the 24th of April, 1868, and stipulated…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
After stating the facts in the foregoing language he continued:
The first and main question is, whether, under all the cir-. cumstances, including the insolvency of the company and the transfer of its business to another company, the complainants are entitled to any relief. What they ask is a return of the money actually paid on the policy, with interest, and a surrender of the premium note; but, if not entitled to this relief, are they entitled, under the general prayer, to relief in any form? • • '
We are satisfied that when Lovell surrendered his policy in April, 1873, for the purpose of…
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